From the Dom Post:

Gunman scare at Hutt McDonald’s

Police cordoned off a McDonald’s restaurant after reports of a gunman on the loose in the Hutt Valley.

Police were alerted at 5.45pm yesterday when a “skinhead covered in tattoos” allegedly pulled a rifle during an argument at a house in Stokes Valley before driving off.

Police found his car parked outside McDonald’s in Silverstream a short time later.

A police negotiator got a member of a white supremacy gang to leave the restaurant and he was arrested without incident.